- 打 dá: 打 da2: (loanword) dozen; Taiwan pr. [da3]打 dǎ: 打 da3: a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打傘|打伞[da3 san3] "to hold an umbrella", 打電話|打电话[da3 dian4 hua4] "to make a phone call", 打針|打针[da3 zhen1] "to get an injection", 打手套[da3 shou3 tao4] "to knit gloves", 打氣|打气[da3 qi4] "to inflate"); to hit; to strike; to fight; (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以後|打那以后[da3 na4 yi3 hou4] "since then")
- to bring about; to create; to cause
- to establish; to set up; to found
- self-sufficiency; autarky
- to prevent; to guard against; to take precautions
- to become extinct; to die out; to lose (sth abstract) completely; to exterminate
- beyond belief; preposterous; absurd; intemperate; dissipated
- degree; level; extent
- for example
- assistant; helper
- to hand it (i.e. the aforementioned item) to (sb)
- cream; butter; (coll.) effeminate
- ice cream
- biscuit; cracker; cookie; CL:片[pian4],塊|块[kuai4]
- mouth; beak; nozzle; spout (of teapot etc); CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]
- 角 Jué: 角 Jue2: surname Jue角 jiǎo: 角 jiao3: angle; corner; horn; horn-shaped; unit of money equal to 0.1 yuan, or 10 cents (a dime); CL:個|个[ge4]角 jué: 角 jue2: role (theater); to compete; ancient three legged wine vessel; third note of pentatonic scale
- underneath; below; the underside; world of mortals; to descend to the world of mortals (of gods)
- bits; fragments; crumbs; filings; trifling; trivial; to condescend to
- to twist; to warp; to distort
- to operate; operations; workings; activities (usu. of an organization); thread (computing)
- to disassociate; to drift away; to leave (a collective); free (component)
- to fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
- controversy; dispute; to dispute
- person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc); (genre of traditional Chinese painting) figure painting
- to forget
- science fiction; abbr. for 科學幻想|科学幻想[ke1 xue2 huan4 xiang3]
- 姆 mǔ: 姆 mu3: (old) female tutor; used in 保姆[bao3 mu3]姆 m: 姆 m1: used in 姆媽|姆妈[m1 ma1]
- circus
- broker; middleman; agent; manager
- performer
- famous; well-known
- a swindle; a trap; a racket; a scam; CL:場|场[chang3]
- to compile; to draw up; to fabricate; to invent; to concoct; to make up; to cook up
- 黑 Hēi: 黑 Hei1: short name for Heilongjiang 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]黑 hēi: 黑 hei1: black; dark; sinister; secret; shady; illegal; to hide (sth) away; to vilify; (loanword) to hack (computing)
- (name) Hayes
- artificial; man-made; having human cause or origin; human attempt or effort
- to cause a sensation; to create a stir in (a place); commotion; controversy
- using this as a pretext; thereby
- to fish up; to dredge up
- to hate; hatred; enmity; hostility
- unusual; abnormal; extremely; exceptionally
- rich; wealthy; affluent; to be rich in; to be replete with
- for a long time
- group of people; camp; faction; sides in a dispute
- supporter